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Books.

THE WORKS OF THOMAS MIDDLETON.* THE glories of the Elizabethan drama have been the theme of much eloquent writing in the present century ; yet, with the exception of......

Two Books On Spain.• The Appearance Of These Two Magnificent

books on Spain—they are positive marvels in point of paper, type, and illustration— testifies to the reality of what Lord Beaconsfield in his Coningsby terms " The Age of......

Mr. Laurence Oliphant's Novel Of Mysticism_•

" 'Tts a mad world, my masters," is the obvious reflection that occurs to the reader of this book, the production of which, except on the assumption of a secular tendency to......